- Harold Shipman
Harold Frederick Shipman (January 14, 1946-January 13, 2004) was an English general practitioner who was one of the most prolific known serial killers in modern history. He was better known, before his arrest, as Fred Shipman. He was convicted on 15 sample charges in 2000 and sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. He committed suicide in 2004 at HMP Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, without admitting or explaining his crimes.
- Henry Morgentaler
Henry Morgentaler, M.D., LL.D.(hc), (born March 19, 1923, in Łódź, Poland) is a Canadian gynecologist and longtime abortion activist from Montreal. Morgentaler is a Holocaust survivor. After living through Auschwitz, he accepted a United Nations scholarship that was being offered to Jewish survivors. He went to medical school in Germany while living with a German family that was forced to house him under the programme.
- Brian Gibbons
Dr. Brian Gibbons FRCGP, (born in Dublin, 1950) is the Labour Party Assembly Member for Aberavon since May 1999 and was appointed Welsh Assembly Government Minister for the Economy and Transport in May 2007.
- John Grant
John Grant (born Bolton, Lancashire, 1933) is a British author who writes under the pen name "Jonathan Gash". He is the author of the Lovejoy series of novels. Grant is a doctor by training and worked as a general practitioner and pathologist. He served in the British Army and attained the rank of Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was head of bacteriology at the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the University of London between 1971 and 1988.
- Howard Stoate
Howard Geoffrey Alvan Stoate (born 14 April 1954) is a Labour politician in the United Kingdom. Stoate was a general practitioner and a Dartford Borough Councillor 1990-99, Chair of Finance 1995-97. He was elected Member of Parliament for Dartford in Kent in 1997, having previously contested the seat in 1992, and was re-elected in 2001 and 2005. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Estelle Morris between 2003 and 2005.
- Ian McWhinney
Ian Renwick McWhinney, OC, FRCGP, FCFP, FRCP, (born October 11, 1926) is a Canadian physician and academic known as the "Father of Family Medicine" for his work in creating a family medicine program at the University of Western Ontario. Born in Burnley, England, he studied at Cheltenham College from 1940 to 1944. During World War II, he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps. After the war, he studied at Clare College, Cambridge and at St.
- John Bodkin Adams
John Bodkin Adams was a British general practitioner, more than 160 of whose patients died under suspicious circumstances. He was tried and controversially acquitted for the murder of one patient in 1957. Another count of murder was withdrawn.
- John Wells
John Wells was an artist and maker of relief constructions, associated with the St Ives group. He was born in London, and trained as a doctor at University College Hospital. He learned to paint at evening classes at St Martin’s School of Art. From 1936 to 1945, he worked as a General Practitioner for the Scilly Isles. After the Second World War he decided to pursue a full-time career as an artist.
- Phil Hammond
Dr Phil Hammond is a medical doctor who has become noted as a comedian and commentator on health issues in the United Kingdom. Although he still works part time as a GP he is best known for his humorous commentary on the National Health Service. He first came into the public spotlight writing a column for "The Independent" newspaper, where he wrote with a strong pro-patient-rights line.
- Richard Simpson
Dr Richard Simpson (born 1942, Edinburgh) is a Scottish Labour politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Ochil constituency from 1999 to 2003, currently a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Mid-Scotland and Fife region as of the 2007 election A GP and psychiatrist prior to his election, he was made the deputy Justice minister when Jack McConnell became First Minister in 2001.
- Jean Turner
Dr Jean McGivern Turner (born December 23, 1939 in Glasgow) is a former Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament for Strathkelvin and Bearsden. Prior to her election, Turner was a General practitioner in the Springburn area in Glasgow for 25 years. Before that, she was an anaesthetist for ten years. She was lured to seek political office due to the cut in services at Stobhill Hospital. Turner also campaigned against Labour's treatment of the NHS.
- Daniel Maynard
Daniel Maynard is a South Dallas, Texas doctor of osteopathy and a general practitioner since 1973 whose practice most recently specialized in pain-relief. His license was suspended in 2003 and was later initially indicted by a grand jury (on March 28 2005) for the deaths of two patients, Tammy Gifford and Janet Westmoreland. He was later linked by Texas authorities to possibly as many as eleven deaths related to alleged overprescription of pain medications.
- Claire Weekes
Claire Hazel Weekes (1903-1990) was an Australian general practitioner and health writer; she also had an early career as a research scientist working in the field of comparative reproduction. Weekes found that many of her patients suffered from neurotic conditions, such as anxiety attacks, phobias and obsessive-compulsive neurosis.
- Michael O'Donnell
Michael O'Donnell (born c 1927), is a British physician, journalist and broadcaster. He was born in Yorkshire, the son of a rural General Practitioner, and educated at Stonyhurst College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he studied medicine. He joined Footlights and appeared in "La Vie Cambridgienne" (1948), the first Footlights revue broadcast on the BBC. He completed his clinical training at St Thomas' Hospital.
- Liam Twomey
Dr. Liam Twomey is a medical doctor and former Irish Fine Gael politician. He was a Teachta Dála for the Wexford constituency from 2002 to 2007. He was the Opposition Spokesperson for Health during the 29th Dáil. However he lost his seat in the 2007 general election being eliminated after the 6th count. Liam Twomey was born in Bealad, Clonakilty, County Cork. He was educated at St. Finbarr's Seminary and Trinity College Dublin, …
- Chris Steele
Doctor Chris Steele is a UK medical doctor well known for his many media appearances. He is the "resident" doctor on ITV's "This Morning" daytime magazine show. He appeared on the very first show in 1988 and still appears on the show every week. He also writes for magazines such as "Woman Magazine" and "Top Sante". Dr Chris Steele qualified as a doctor in 1968 and has worked as a general practitioner in south Manchester since.
- John Lykoudis
John Lykoudis (born 1910 in Missolonghi, died 1980) was a general practitioner in Greece who treated patients from peptic ulcer disease with antibiotics long before it was commonly recognized that bacteria were a dominant cause for the disease. After treating himself for peptic ulcer disease with antibiotics in 1958 and finding the treatment effective he began treating patients with antibiotics.
- Jacqueline Bisset
Jacqueline Bisset (born September 13, 1944) is a British actress, born in Weybridge, Surrey, England. Her French mother taught her to speak the language fluently, which has led many to erroneously believe she was born in France. When Bisset was a teenager, her mother was diagnosed with disseminating sclerosis.
- Peter Brand
Peter Brand (born 1947) is a United Kingdom general practitioner and Liberal Democrat politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight at the 1997 general election, but lost his seat to the Conservatives at the 2001 election.
- Vernon Coleman
Vernon Coleman (born in Walsall, West Midlands, England) is a British writer. A former general practitioner, he is the author of 90 books, including non-fiction works about human health, politics, cricket, and animal issues, and a range of novels. According to his website, his books have sold over two million copies in the UK, and have been translated into 23 languages. One of his novels, 'Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War', has been turned into a movie starring Pauline Collins.
- Bill Tidy
Bill Tidy MBE (October 9 1933--) is a British cartoonist, known chiefly for his comic strips: * The Fosdyke Saga (Daily Mirror) * The Cloggies (Private Eye) * Grimbledon Down (New Scientist) * Dr. Whittle (General Practitioner) * Kegbuster (What's Brewing?)
- Peter Gregory
Dr Peter Gregory was the team doctor (chief medical officer) for the England cricket team from November 2002 to 15 November, 2006. Gregory was the first person to be appointed to the role of chief medical officer by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2002. He is a general practitioner and also holds an MSc in sports and exercise medicine from Nottingham University. Gregory left his post to do voluntary work in Romania.
- Susan Owens
Susan Owens is an American judge. On November 7, 2000, Judge Susan Owens was elected the seventh woman to serve on the Washington State Supreme Court. She joined the Court after serving nineteen years as District Court Judge in Western Clallam County, where she was the County's senior elected official with five terms.
- John Tickell
Dr. John Tickell (born January 29, 1945) is an Australian doctor, businessman, author and former athlete. In his younger days, Tickell played Australian rules football, first with the University Blues team and later with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (now known as the AFL). In a brief career spanning 1965-66, he played 18 games with the Hawks for 2 goals. During this time he graduated from the University of Melbourne with a degree in Medicine.
- Bruce Flegg
Dr Bruce Flegg (born 10 March 1954 in Sydney, New South Wales) is the Leader of the Queensland Liberal Party and Shadow Treasurer in the Queensland Parliament. He was elected leader of the state parliamentary Liberal Party on 7 August 2006, replacing Bob Quinn. Prior to this he served as Deputy Leader and Shadow Minister for Health. He is the Member for Moggill having been elected in 2004 and re-elected in 2006.
- Peter Snow
Dr Peter Snow (died March 1 2006) was a general practitioner who served the New Zealand rural community of Tapanui for over 30 years. He was president of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs from 1998-99, and received their highest honour, Distinguished Fellowship, in 2001. He was a member of the Otago Hospital Board and its successor, the District Health Board.
- Tony Gardner
Tony Gardner (born January 10, 1964 in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside) is an English actor and qualified doctor. He qualified as a doctor at Guy's Hospital in 1987, then as a General Practitioner in 1993, but stopped practicing in 2000 due to his involvement in CITV's "My Parents are Aliens". He appeared as Michael, Becky's latest lover, in the second series of "Joking Apart".
- David Dale
David Dale is an Australian author and journalist. He contributes a popular culture column called The Tribal Mind to "The Sydney Morning Herald", and a column called 'Who We Are' to "The Sun-Herald". David Dale graduated from Sydney University with honours in psychology, and then pursued journalism. He has been a political reporter for "The Australian", a sub-editor for "General Practitioner" (London), features editor of "The Sun-Herald", …
- Eleanor Dark
Eleanor Dark (née O'Reilly was an Australian author whose novels included "Prelude to Christopher" (1934) and "Return to Coolami" (1936), both winners of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for literature. Eleanor Dark was born in Sydney, the only child of poet Dowell Philip O'Reilly. On finishing school and unable to enter university having failed mathematics, she learnt typing and took a secretarial job.
- Ali Bacher
Aaron "Ali" Bacher (b. 24 May, 1942) is an administrator of the United Cricket Board of South Africa. He was born to Lithuanian-Jewish parents who emigrated to South Africa and got his nickname "Ali" at the age of seven from Ali Baba. Ali married Shira Teeger, and they have two daughters and one son. Ali started playing cricket while at school and represented Transvaal at the age of 17. He played in 12 Tests for South Africa, …
- Kieran Deeny
Kieran Deeny (born October 12 1954) is a Northern Irish medical doctor turned politician, and an independent Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for West Tyrone, having run on a single issue ticket of retaining the Tyrone County Hospital in Omagh. Born in Downpatrick, Deeny was educated at St. Patrick's Boy's Primary School and St. Patrick's De La Salle Grammar School, both in Downpatrick. During this time he regularly partipated in several sports, …
- Morell MacKenzie
Sir Morell Mackenzie (July 7 1837 - February 3, 1892) was a British physician, one of the pioneers of laryngology in the United Kingdom. Morell Mackenzie was born at Leytonstone, Essex, England on July 7, 1837. He was the son of Stephen Mackenzie, a general practitioner and surgeon. After going through the medical course at the London Hospital and becoming a member to the Royal College of Surgeons in 1858, he studied abroad in Paris, …
- Frans de Wever
Frans de Wever (1869 - 1940) was a Dutch General Practitioner, Municipal doctor, rail doctor, mining doctor, and hospital founder
- Moran Campbell
Edward James Moran Campbell, O.C., M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C. (1925 - April 12 2004), was a Canadian physician and academic. He was the founding Chair of the Department of Medicine at McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences from 1968 to 1975. He was also the inventor of the Venturi mask. Born in England, the son of a Yorkshire general practitioner, he received his Doctor of Medicine from Middlesex Hospital Medical School (now University College Hospital) in London in 1949.
- Adolph Kussmaul
Adolph Kussmaul was a German physician and a leading clinician of his time. He was born as the son and grandson of physicians at Graben near Karlsruhe and studied at Heidelberg. He entered the army after graduation and spent two years as an army surgeon. This was followed by a period as a general practitioner before he went to Würzburg to study for his doctorate under Virchow. He was subsequently Professor of Medicine at Heidelberg (1857), Erlangen (1859), …
- Thomas L. Schwenk
Thomas L. Schwenk, M.D., is professor of Family Medicine and chair of the department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. In 2002 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He also serves as a member of the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program.
- Rob Oudkerk
Robert (Rob) Herman Oudkerk (20 March 1955) is a Dutch politician, and general practitioner. He has served as a member of the Dutch Parliament (Tweede Kamer) for the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) and as alderman of education in Amsterdam. During his time as a local politician in Amsterdam, he was beset by scandals which eventually forced him to step down.
- Ewen Neil McQueen
Dr Ewen Neil McQueen M.A.,D.Sc., (1889-1967) was an Australian Headmaster, prominent educational innovator, scientist, psychologist and General Practitioner.. He was most often known as Neil McQueen or E. Neil McQueen.
- Donald McIntosh Johnson
Dr Donald McIntosh Johnson (17 February, 1903 - 5 November, 1978) was a British General practitioner, author and politician who was a Member of Parliament for nine years. He regarded himself as a 'Cassandra' (one whose prophecies were true but never believed), …
- George Bodington
George Bodington (1799 - 1882) was a British general practitioner and pulmonary specialist. Born in Buckinghamshire and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, he served a surgical apprenticeship then studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1825 he was licenced by the Society of Apothecaries, and became a physician and GP in Erdington (then in Warwickshire, now West Midlands).